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Rachel Terry is a Senior Lecturer in TESOL at the Department of Education, School of Business, Education and Law, University of Huddersfield. She is a member of the Huddersfield Centre for Research in Education and Society (HudCRES) and actively supervises PhD students in education-related fields.
Her research interests center on vocational education, further education, qualification reform, and teacher development, with a particular focus on England's T Levels. Her work explores perceptions of quality, workplace learning, and policy implementation in technical education.
The recent publications highlight a consistent focus on vocational education reform, teacher learning, and participatory research methods. Her work bridges academic inquiry with practical and policy implications in lifelong learning and technical education.
- Raising the value of VET through qualification reform: the Case of English T levels (2024)
- Perceptions of quality and the shaping or misshaping of vocational education: the case of T level qualifications in England (2023)
- Capturing learning: Using visual elicitation to investigate the workplace learning of ‘newly qualified’ in-service teachers in further education (2019)
- Equality and diversity (2018)
- 'No research is insignificant': implementing a Students-as-Researchers Festival (2016)
Rachel is actively involved in research projects, including a 2024–2025 study on the professional lives of further education teacher educators. She regularly presents at conferences and contributes expert commentary in the media, such as her 2019 piece on qualitative research rigor. She is also engaged in fostering student research through initiatives like the Students-as-Researchers Festival.
Rachel Terry contributes to the UN Sustainable Development Goals, particularly those related to quality education and reduced inequalities, through her research in equitable and effective vocational education systems.
